Tag: drugs

Sweat Little Rock And Roller – Lauran Hibberd Gets Islington Steamy

22/11/2019

She's a bobby socked stomping indie-slacker guitar thumper who's going to grind and slide all over 2020...

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The Romance of Junk: Heartbreaker Walter Lure

21/05/2019

Oral history on the 70s punk scene with Walter Lure of seminal punk band The Heartbreakers...

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Legal Weed: Do Young’uns Now Toke More, or Do More Young’uns Toke?

10/01/2018

What impact may legalization of recreational marijuana in Oregon have on teen marijuana use?...

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Self-Medication or Self-Anesthesia: It’s No Wonder We Tune Out

15/12/2017

Beneficiaries of the system promote their lies; the sane seek solace where they can get it...

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Career Goals? Hic! Booze and Weed Hold Teens Back

06/11/2017

Booze and pot use in teens lessens life success ...

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Psychedelic Drugs: Could they Actually LOWER Crime?

26/10/2017

New study suggests psychedelic drugs may reduce criminal behavior ...

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psilocybin, magic mushrooms

Ctrl+Alt+Psilocibin: How Magic Mushrooms Reset Depressed Brains

17/10/2017

Magic mushrooms may 'reset' the brains of depressed patients ...

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Do Energy Drinks Lead to Drug Abuse?

10/08/2017

Regular energy drink use linked to later drug use among young adults ...

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Can’t Multi-Task? Quit Boozing

26/06/2017

Cognitive impairments are an issue for many adult substance users...

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Woman of Substances (Jenny Valentish)

12/06/2017

Addiction isn’t gender neutral, and neither is mental health....

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dentistry, recreational cannabis

Thash Why Ish Called Hash: Recreational Cannabis and Gum Disease

29/05/2017

Recreational cannabis, used often, increases risk of gum disease ...

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Take Two of These and Cold Turkey in the Morning: America’s Opiate Crisis

23/05/2017

Researchers believe alternative pain management options should be integrated with inpatients, including acupuncture, tai chi and others...

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party, rave, serotonin

Twitchy Disco: The Effects of Serotonin on Motivation

14/02/2017

More serotonin = less motivation? It depends on the circumstances ...

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How Music Triggers the Brain’s Own Opioids

10/02/2017

McGill scientists show brain's own opioids involved in musical pleasure...

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They Say the Devil’s In the Deep End

28/01/2017

When you meet the devil, the only response is to wake and bake...

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psilocybin, magic mushrooms

Careful Now! : When Magic Mushrooms Turn BAD

01/01/2017

Survey assesses both risky behaviors and positive outcomes of psilocybin use...

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The Lethal Cocktail of Heart Drugs You Need To Know About

13/10/2016

New study links common pair of drugs to increased risk for fatal heart condition...

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Honey, Quit Harshing My Buzz: Bumblebees Hit the Woozy Gravy

26/09/2016

When Bees Are Buzzed, Their Behavior Changes...

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A Decade of ‘Delics: Shroom, Ten Years On

20/09/2016

Ten years later, the cultural history of the magic mushroom still gathers fans and furore...

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Cannabis and Vision Improvement

27/08/2016

Researchers find new role for cannabinoids in vision ...

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whisky and pills by pixabay and moritz320

Drugs: The Only Issue In Which Ignorance is a Virtue

18/08/2016

Maybe our ‘war on drugs’ should be reframed as a ‘war’ on ignorance...

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The Predictably Easy Method of Transporting Illegal Drugs

03/07/2016

Black, Hispanic drivers stopped most often, white drivers most likely to have contraband ...

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Tracing Mescaline Lines (Eric Yanez / Dubeejunk)

21/05/2016

A nod to European fin de siecle visuals, and another to 1960s psychedelia inform Dubeejunk's striking graphics. Profile...

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Tripped into the Door? Psychedelic Drugs May Reduce Domestic Violence

28/04/2016

Study finds psychedelic drugs may reduce domestic violence ...

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Weed or Wine – What’s Your Poison?

01/01/2016

No easy answers in UW study of legal marijuana's impact on alcohol use ...

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A more chaotic brain state: New Data on How LSD Works

13/12/2015

LSD changes consciousness by reorganizing human brain networks ...

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cannabis

Brain Strain: What You Don’t Want to Know (But Need To) About Cannabis

01/12/2015

Study shows white matter damage caused by 'skunk-like' cannabis ...

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THC, Or Not THC? How Danes Grow Stronger Cannabis

22/11/2015

The concentration of the euphoriant THC in cannabis has tripled in the space of 20 years...

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Professor Alex Jensen with his two daughters. By Mark Philbrick/BYU

Favourite Children and Drug Abuse

17/09/2014

It's not just how you treat them differently, but how your kids perceive i...

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Weed-Smoking Lessens Wife-Beating

30/08/2014

634 couples found that the more often they smoked marijuana, the less likely they were to engage in domestic violence...

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